[Dnsmasq-discuss] Using UEFI with dnsmasq

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 21:18 +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
> Paul Smith wrote:
> > Hi all; the blade-based systems I'm currently using use PXE to boot and
> > all is well.  However, the next generation blades will be using UEFI and
> > I'm not very familiar with it.  I can't seem to find any good docs for
> > network booting with UEFI either.  Does anyone have any examples of
> > using UEFI with dnsmasq?  Any instructions for dhcp options that might
> > be needed?
> 
> As far as I can see, EFI systems use PXE, just the same, so the dnsmasq
> configuration isn't really different. Of course the environment seen by
> the first-stage loader you supply will be different, so you'll need to a
> different binary (a quick google says elilo.efi instead of pxelinux, but
> don't quote me on that).

Somehow I got onto grub for an EFI loader and I was massively confused
(and it didn't work).  Grub simply doesn't appear to be interested in
supporting network boot very well.

After I sent my email last night I continued searching and I found eLILO
and that seems much, much better (it even has some straightforward docs
on how to netboot with it), although I haven't had a chance to
thoroughly test it.  Seems odd (wasn't grub supposed to be the "grand
unified bootloader"?), but for anyone who has to deal with EFI/UEFI, at
least with netboot, I strongly recommend you ignore grub and go get
eLILO.


Thanks Simon.

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